ABSTRACT
Group-analysis used as an instrument of treatment, teaching, and research has a bearing on all human activities and experiences. What follows are theoretical formulations arising from group-analytic observations and speculations as to their significance. The group is bound to establish a common language by which the range of its direct communication is constantly enlarged and qualitatively more precisely defined. The group matrix can be regarded as the operational basis of all mental processes in the group in the same way as the individual's 'mind' is the operational basis of all mental processes in the individual. Its lines of force may be conceived as passing right through the individual members and may therefore be called a transpersonal network, comparable to a magnetic field. The social matrix can be thought of as a network in quite the same way as the brain is a network of fibres and cells which together form a complex unit.
